Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-06-10
FACT AND FANCY.

jewelers. exchange will be opened in Ne'
York July II.
Buddhism is becoming fashionable as II re
lgion in Boston.
Pennsylvania Legislators are paid a salar.
instead Of per diem.
Three thousand tons OF ice was melted by
recent fire in Baltimore, Nd.
Portland, Oregon, carpenters are striking fol
nine hours work instesfof ten.
The next republican state convention OF
Ohio is 10 be held at Toledo, July %
sixty-fve tons OF steel rails are turned out
daily at the roller mills In Columbia, Pa.
The MeIicans are using electricity TO light
up the smpnitheaters for their bull-hgh;s
1t is thought that York state will derive
5000 this year from the celebrated in
heritance tax.
There are eight thousand Piute Indians in-
stead OF four thousand, as has been paragraph.
ed by numerous exchanges, according 10 the
chief Of that interesting tribe.
Vegetables are arriving from the south at
northern markets One Charleston steamer
brought 1000 quarts OF strawberries, marrow.
fat peas, cabbage, aud other vegetables.
Gen. John Stark, Of Revolutionary fame, is
about to have monument erected In his
memory, the town OF Manchester, y. H., hav-
ing recently subscribed s., 600 for that purpose.
A lobster firm al Rockland, Me, shipped
from the LIST OF October 10 March %, 3, 300 bar
rels Of HOLSTERS TO New York dealers. The
HOLSTERS, 247, 500 in number, were valued at
$50, COO.
sawdust only Is used by an Oregon Touring
mill in the generation OF steam. 1t would
cost 800 day TO feed the the furnaces Of the
mill with coal, while with sawdust II costs
only So day.
Two or three nights ago white deacon in
Chatham county, South Carolina. set steel
trap In his corn crib, and upon visiting it In
the morning found colored deacon with four
fingers in the trap.
New Orleans banker, who was fond OF
using Latin TO enrich his conversation, was
asked one evening by young lady IN hotel
where he had been. "Oh just outside In the
cuspadore, walking pro and con-" be replied.
The Benedictine sisters OF charity of New
ark, y. D., have purchased 200 acres OF land
belonging TO Allen Thorndyke Rice, editor Of
The Worth American Reyiep, known as "the
plains, and situated in Caroline county, near
Greensboro, Md. The property will be used
for female academy and nunnery.
To be a thoroughly English
gentleman one must not content himself with
one summer cottage. He must own three or
four, one in the mountains, another at the
seashore, aud another at his farm. He can
move according to his fancy, however, and
can occupy the house which he considers most
well known retail merchant was in bad
humor one Monday morning A friend said
to him: Charley, am afraid the preaching
yesterday did not do you much good ut
lid not" was the answer. My pastor
preached against the folles OF fashionable
dress, and most OF the ladies' Of his cougrega-
ion are nv customers
james, - said the milkman 10 his new boy,
dye see what I'm a-dOu of" Yes sir"
eplied James, you're a-pourin' water in the
MILK NO, I'm not, James; Pm a-pourin'
milk in the water So. Il ANYBODY asks you
( put water in my milk you tell 'em no.
Alters stick to the truth, James; cheatin' Is
,ad 'nough, but lyin' is wussn
The beautiful" Indian maiden, thinks
writer ~ The Philadelphia Press, is generally !
big, fat, dirty looking creature with a
blanket around her that comes TO her knees,
,are headed, with moccasins on that she
generally pulls of when they are worn out.
The blanket is fastened at the neck and also |
With a belt at the waist One thing they |
AVE, the most beautiful, pearl looking teeth. |
II happened in New Haven. TIE Congrega- /
io'.dlist says, on Easter Sunday. An old lady |
watched the services through with brcathless |
interest, and then, turning to a stranger, |
aid: THE choir did well. didn't theyi' |
'Excellently," was the reply; whereat the /
aithful observer OF the proceedings remark |
"a dramatically: There was a 81 bet up |
hat they'd break down" viii unregenerate |
be betung next on ministers,
II is said that citizen OF Augusta, Ga, |
lrcaned the other night that he was standing /
Il the grave Of bis father, who lived in dis |
ant city and whom he had not seen for years. |
IN the following night the dream was repeat
d. Early the next morning he went 10 the /
telegraph Office TO send dispatch home, but /
,efore he had filed out the blank the opera
or banued MN message announcing tDat /
lis father had died suddenly the night before. |
Little Dick-An't those heathens funny /
What think elephants and cows aud things 5 /
acredi Little Dot-Yes; why don't they have /
sacred eagle like we havei It's good deal |
icer. Eagles ant sacred; they is only pa
rotic, like the Fourth OF july, that's alt
Yes, they is sacred, too They ant"
Oh! You bad boy, you In our church We
ave got a great big eagle with its wings out,
nd the ministers put the bible on so there,
lown
III notice" said a clergvman's wife 20 her
husband, "that IL is no longer fashionable for /
he minister 10 kiss the bride at the wedding |
CEREMONY" Eyes sadly responded the good |
nan, many OF the pleasant features connect
q with the wedding ceremony have been dis
srded and andn--- Whats that" de- |
handed his wife, omnously III mcan-I |
mean" he stammered that the seuseless
ustom OF kissing the bride should have been |
bolished long ago.
When the Cornell university base ball nine
Gere In Elmira, ~ Y, recently, they thought II
roper to serensde the college girls. 50, after
lark, they assembled I'm front OF a large |
building which was lighted aud began with |